Given the options (find another route, leave earlier or later, etc.) this is the worst possible. Since fines for things like driving on the sidewalk and passing a stopped school bus are less than the court costs, the judge did what he could.
I stopped ironing a decade ago and do not have a single wrinkle when I walk out of the house. Nothing goes to the cleaners. No one irons for me. My shirts are 100% cotton. Wrinkles are a choice, not an inevitability.
If done well, scapegoating and confiscation can supply a dictator with funds for an entire life (Isabella). If done wrong, the ruler will fail when the persecuted are gone (Pol Pot).
There are those of us who think of Spain's Golden Age as ending with Isabella, not starting with her.
Reminds of the day I came across a mountain lion while biking. It was in a county park surrounded by cities. That was also the day I recorded a personal best time for that route.
Neatobot Walking XL
There are those of us who think of Spain's Golden Age as ending with Isabella, not starting with her.